Picks Feb 05

[From Mars]

RC
enaku theriyaathuppa aanaa neenga sonna plot sari thaan, monisha commit suicide, aanaa hero pathi theriyaathu

moongil kaatrOam, three version irukku.

onnu sad, onnu duet, onnu solo

[RC]

naan paatha pada paata pottu enakku edhiraa inga edhuna sadhi nadakkudhaa?

[Ramki]

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http://tfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl.../maada_imai.rm

Song: maadapuraavo illai manjaL nilaavo
Film: imaigaL
Singers: PSuseela, Malaysia Vasudevan
Lyrics: Vaali
Music : Gangai Amaran

This is a breezy duet by GA with lots of IR touches. A popular one in mid 80's but slowly faded from the memories of Radio jockeys. Also PS-MV is quite a rare combo as they have sung very few songs together.
I have not watched 'imaigaL' but i think Sivaji(no jodi for sivaji) played a Muslim 'bhai' who later 'adopts' damsel in distress, hindu 'thangachi' saritha. Saritha's husband (jaiganesh/vijayakumar?) is ofcourse the evil villain. I believe in the climax, saritha kills sivaji to save her thaali . Well this is what i remember from the reviews i read.
The only saving grace would have been this song and not watching sivaji frolicking with teenage heroines.

Were there other good songs in 'imaigaL'?

[rajeshkrv]

It's saratbabu who played as Saritha's husband.

This is the first song of MV for Shivaji and then he continued this trend of imitating TMS for Shivaji.

A nice Duet by PS & MV - PS sings with perfection
a gr8 lullaby

thanks ramki for this wonderful song

this film had no other heroine for shivaji .. (God saved us)

[RC]

I think the husband is SarathBabu. I dont think he's the evil husband. For a change, I havent watched this movie but the story line is on those lines ( thanks to the review)

[suri]

madapurovo(imaigal) was written by pulamaipitthan

[Ramki]

Thanks rkrv,RC, Suri

[Ramki]

Next:

http://tfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl.../endhan_ovu.rm

Song: endhan poovanathil indru vasantham
Film: oru vaarisu uruvaagiradhu
Singer: SPB
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
Music : MSV

-mouLi directed the movie version of his drama 'oru varisu uruvaagiradhu' but couldnt create the same interest as the drama did(which had MouLi and ManiMala). After meeting a series of failures(vaa indha pakkam, nandri meendum varuga,oru pullankuzhal adupoodhigiradhu, aNNe aNNe) he made one last attempt with OVU before completely migrating to Tollywood.
OVU had Prathap, Sripriya, charuhasan, Ramji, Jaishankar, sumalatha etc. The story is about a poor father who gives the very best to his only son but gets back nothing from him in return. Todays pick is a dream sequence. Prathap dreams this song after winning boxes of soaps from a trade fair.

[RR]

I think SPB enlivens this rather simplistic tune by MSV. VM's lines

en poovaanathil indru vasantham
malare malare thoongaathe..

and

vaanavil vandhu boomiyil irangum
jannalin kambikku vannangal poosum..

are good.

Second charanathula 'son' school-ukku pordhu,kalyanam (incl. suhaag raat),etc and up to 'grandson' konjara varaikkum poittaar.

BTW, wasn't 'aNNe aNNe' a hit? It was thoroughly enjoyable - mouLi at his best. Sumitra ethukkume convince aagaama 'pachai kuthirai' thaanduratha vachu husband-nu confirm panradhu was hilarious..

[rajeshkrv]

yes anne anne was enjoyable..

that "Akka payyan" dialouge was fun..